June 18, 2013 VIDEO: Guinea’s fight for its iron ore billions One of the greatest prizes in all of mining, perhaps the world, is the iron mountains of Simandou in Guinea, half of which was given away by a former dictator…
June 17, 2013 Banro shareholders enjoy rare stock surge It's the Democratic Republic of Congo gold miner's last week in TSX-S&P Composite index.
June 17, 2013 Resurgent Aussie dollar gives huge boost to Brazil, South Africa iron ore exporters While the real and rand continues to weaken significantly, the Australian dollar is staging an impressive comeback and dealing damage to Rio Tinto and BHP.
June 14, 2013 US partners with Guinea to improve diamond mining The two countries will focus particularly on improvements for alluvial extraction.
June 14, 2013 Coal is the fastest growing fossil fuel again In 2012 its consumption grew by 2.5% in comparison to 2.2% for natural gas.
June 14, 2013 4,000 strike at Anglo American Platinum mine once again At least 2,400 workers were being held down in the mine by their own colleagues.
June 14, 2013 Global cobalt Most of the world’s cobalt is mined in Africa and the majority of Africa’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
June 14, 2013 Miners’ new trilogy: flat revenues, profit drop and weak share prices Report shows mining companies are not longer trusted on their abilities to control costs, deliver on promises and cope with resource nationalization demands.
June 13, 2013 South Africa adopts hard-line stance on labour relations Deputy President to meet with business, labour and government reps on Friday.
June 13, 2013 ‘Million carats’ could be retrieved from diamond dump in Botswana New modular tailings treatment project would allow to recover around 18 million carats over 20 years.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
